Monthly Archives: June 2012

Tutorial on Open Source Software for Entertainment (OSSE) at IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing

Posted on June 20, 2012

Date: September 26, 2012 Place: Bremen, Germany Website: http://wp.me/PXD0L-tm Goal In this tutorial, we explore open source software practices and tools that are suitable for a growingnumber of creators of interactive and playful systems. The introduction of open source tools … Continue reading →

Recording of the Build a Widget Day is now available

Posted on June 18, 2012

The recording of a 1-day ROLE workshop held last March at the Open University is now available online: http://stadium.open.ac.uk/1960/. The workshop was entitled “Build a Widget Day” and was co-organised with the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD), a … Continue reading →

The 4th ROLE Widget Enchantment Contest has just started!

Posted on June 13, 2012

Submit your widget ideas to win an iPad! The first round is starting on May 28th: you have two month to submit your specification of a learning widget! The winners of the first round will be announced on August 3rd … Continue reading →

EC-TEL’2012: Call for Doctoral Consortium Deadline has been extended

Posted on June 4, 2012

EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium submission deadline is extended to  June 15, 2012 More information on the EC-TEL Call for Activities is here. The EC-TEL Doctoral Consortium brings together Ph.D. students working on topics related to Technology Enhanced Learning. The doctoral consortium … Continue reading →

CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Motivational and Affective Aspects of Technology Enhanced Learning (MATEL)

Posted on June 4, 2012

Date:   September 18, 15:00 Venue:  Saarbrücken (Germany) Website: http://matel12.professional-learning.eu Deadline for submissions: July 9, 2012 (via easychair) In conjunction with the Seventh European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) Motivational and affective aspects are frequently neglected in TEL although … Continue reading →

OU workshops at the JTEL Summer School and Dev8eD

Posted on June 4, 2012

Alexander Mikroyannidis from the OU delivered two workshops in the JTEL Summer School and the Dev8eD conference. The JTEL Summer School is an annual event offering an opportunity for PhD students in TEL to meet, exchange knowledge and develop their … Continue reading →

ROLE Workshops at PLE conference in Aveiro (Portugal), July 11, 2012

Posted on June 4, 2012

SDK Workshop Workshop website: http://rolews.fit.fraunhofer.de/structure.html Structure: Two parts – theoretical and practical Requirements: laptop with recent Chrome or Firefox, development skills beneficial Venue: University of Aveiro Technical Zone Date and Time: July 11, 2012 at 14:00pm Workshop Organisers: Kerstin Schmidt … Continue reading →

JTEL 2012 Workshop Report: Designing Your Educational Web Apps

Posted on June 4, 2012

This workshop has been organised by the ROLE partners from EPFL and the main idea of the workshop is to collect learners’ and teachers’ requirements for educational widgets, and encourage workshop participants to design their own widgets. Graasp was introduced … Continue reading →

RWTH/KUL Developer Workshops at JTEL12 and Dev8eD

Posted on June 4, 2012

Dominik Renzel from RWTH Aachen University and colleagues from Aachen (Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma) and KU Leuven (Sten Govaerts) delivered the workshop “How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK” to developers of Web-based learning … Continue reading →